The P.P. Layouts & The Illusion of the Domestic

“He Himself [Sam Regan] was a believer; He affirmed the miracle of translation, the near-sacred moment in which the miniature artifacts of the layout no longer merely represented Earth but became Earth.

And he and others, joined together in the fusion of doll-inhabitation by means of the CAN-D, were trasported outside of time and local space.

Many of the colonist were as yet unbelievers; to them the layouts were merely symbols of a world which none of them could any longer experience. But, one by one, the believers came around”.